Components of company's proposal to ENY MEC
#141
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It goes like this: Announce closing of domicile X and go through the motions (displacement bids, etc.)....THEN, float new offer that includes keeping domiciles X and Y open for a period of time to get enough of those pilots on board to achieve 50%+1. In all likelihood, whether your MEC and negotiators know it, they will play right into Parker and Glasses hands if they put any such deal before the pilots.
Just watch. The proof will be a TA that has exactly the above offer of keeping closing domiciles open for period of time. That's how to get a bad 10-year deal from Envoy pilots and it's a form of "bait and switch". They know a percentage of Envoy pilots in those bases will take the bait even knowing the switch is coming. Long-term win for Parker and Glass and short-term win for SOME of the pilots.
You guys are being manipulated by pros.
#142
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It's only a symbol of success in this career. I work to live not live to work.
I'm really surprised that people on here think our position has strengthened. We've lost the CRJs and the MIA base since we mistakenly voted down the last proposal. This is not a vote of getting a better deal later, it's a vote of keeping your job or making a lateral move.
I'm really surprised that people on here think our position has strengthened. We've lost the CRJs and the MIA base since we mistakenly voted down the last proposal. This is not a vote of getting a better deal later, it's a vote of keeping your job or making a lateral move.
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#144
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Many have skeletons and are fat and diabetic. What happens to these poor bastards when the flow doesn't work out as planned due to inevitable bumps in the road ?
They're stuck at the regional level, many now committed due to age and other circumstances. Just why do you think they want a B-scale and ultimately 12/4 for all pilots ?
Answer : Because they know it's highly likely many of them will spend more than 12 years there due to circumstances beyond their control. SOMEONE has to fly these planes for decades because it is totally unrealistic to think that they'll be able to develop and maintain a "revolving door" operation at any given regional in perpetuity. SOME regionals WERE once a good career, Legacy Eagle being one of them.....and that was flying smaller aircraft that are now being replaced by larger. Now, it's 76 passenger airliners flown country-wide (and even International) for peanuts. Truth is, that's a plan that will fail. Delta knows it and has (and is) angling back toward mainline ops for previously out-sourced flying. United in now getting on-board with the same idea. That leaves AA, clinging to a dying antiquated model destined to failure.
Will demanding RJ's be flown even CHEAPER bring prospective pilots to the regionals in droves. Nope. Will offering "cradle to grave" career paths do that ? Ultimately no,.........not when a pilot sees they'd have to spend potentially upwards of a decade or more at the regional level and discovers years later they were lured in as suckers. Another plan will be required.
#145
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Well I think they might have hit a wall when they started introducing 175's and the 900's. What part of either of those planes screams regional? Those planes fly many of the mainline routes.
While I agree that the regionals are cheap labor it has become increasingly a pool of pilots that has dried up. The regionals are about to hit a big snag in the next 5-9 years. Most of us will be at a mainline carrier by then but grab your popcorn it going to be fun to watch.
While I agree that the regionals are cheap labor it has become increasingly a pool of pilots that has dried up. The regionals are about to hit a big snag in the next 5-9 years. Most of us will be at a mainline carrier by then but grab your popcorn it going to be fun to watch.
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How many times have they come back already ?
#148
Absolutely. Look, Parker and Glass cannot afford another no vote. Should that occur, they would be FORCED to place new aircraft at Envoy under the current CBA. They are running out of time and there aren't that many cards in the deck. So, selectively ratcheting up the heat is required and you can expect just that. It wouldn't surprise me to see the C-word leaked again, but more gently and in a roundabout way to instill horrifying fear. The stakes for them are that high and they cannot fail this time because if they do, they're next move will all but demonstrate they were playing poker all along.
How many times have they come back already ?
How many times have they come back already ?
^^^^THIS!!!^^^^
#149
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Absolutely. Look, Parker and Glass cannot afford another no vote. Should that occur, they would be FORCED to place new aircraft at Envoy under the current CBA. They are running out of time and there aren't that many cards in the deck. So, selectively ratcheting up the heat is required and you can expect just that. It wouldn't surprise me to see the C-word leaked again, but more gently and in a roundabout way to instill horrifying fear. The stakes for them are that high and they cannot fail this time because if they do, they're next move will all but demonstrate they were playing poker all along.
How many times have they come back already ?
How many times have they come back already ?
#150
Why spend the money to transfer 145's to Piedmont. The rumor we hear is June. But they haven't even started a training program yet. Just seem like a waste of money to me to start a 145 program at another WO'ed when you've already got one at another. The 700's going to PSA I can see. 145's to Piedmont not so much.
If they were gonna place anything at Piedmont you'd think it would be a plane that neither of the 3 Wo'ed has.
AAG wants those 175's at Envoy. And they want them there BAD!! Good luck guys.
Last edited by billyho; 11-02-2014 at 08:10 AM.
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